Will GE do better as three companies than as one?
How to dismantle an industrial icon
“THE difficulties inherent in such a reorganisation were many and serious.”
That is how in 1893 Charles Coffin, the first chief executive of General Electric (GE), described merging three businesses into what became the iconic American conglomerate. More than 130 years later, Coffin’s latest successor, Larry Culp, must be feeling similarly about doing the reverse.
On Tuesday (Apr 2), GE split into two public companies: GE Aerospace, a maker of jet engines, and GE Vernova, a manufacturer of power-generation equipment. A third, GE HealthCare, a medical-devices firm, was spun off in January 2023.
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